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MORE ABOUT THE TRAGOPAN. 
a warm flush of scarlet about the neck. A handsome bird, frequenting 
the densest forests of the liigh mountains, and ascending almost to the 
boundary-line of the region of perpetual snow. In winter he seeks a 
lower level, and makes his home in the thickest shades of the morinda, 
walnut, and oak trees, where the intermediate bamboo growth renders 
access almost impossible. There he is found with one or two or a 
dozen of his congeners, but never forming any close intimacy or cordial 
alliance. On the contrary, they are always scattered over a greater or 
less extent of forest. Each company seems to return every year to 
the same spot, and to remain there though the soil ma}^ be covered 
with snow. If forced by a violent tempest, or any other circum- 
stance, to emigrate, they make their way towards a wooded valley, 
or some place where trees and bushes provide a sufficient shelter. 
It is a curious fact that the tragopan is silent in winter, or at least 
opens his mouth only when disturbed and affrighted. Then he utters 
the most dolorous cries — Wae-wae-wae — like the bleating of a young 
lamb. At first the sounds are isolated, slow, and quite distinct ; but 
gradually they are accelerated, and run into one another, until at 
length they blend into a kind of incoherent strain, just as the bird is 
" up and away." His flight is very rapid, and easily recognized by 
the peculiar sound it makes. He passes the night upon the trees, and 
lives upon leaves and buds, flowers, berries, seeds, and insects. 
TURKEYS. 
From the pheasants we turn to the turkeys, with which the reader 
will probably be more familiar. They inhabit, in their Avild state, the 
east and north of America, from Canada to the isthmus of Panama ; 
the species known as the peacock-turkey being confined to the Bay of 
Honduras. 
In Europe the turkey does not appear to have been introduced 
until early in the sixteenth century; but he is now naturalized in 
several countries, and has long been recognized as a bird fit to figure 
on any " board." With Christmas fare and Christmas festivities he is 
popularly associated. As for the wild turkey, he is given to wandering, 
like Ulysses ; in summer frequenting the breezy highlands, in winter 
